Frances Brissey says a car crash last year changed her life — in good ways and bad. But she feels grateful to have been saved by a passing truck driver.
Rasha Kowalewski was struck by the extra care a nurse gave her mom, which allowed Kowalewski to experience a moment of comfort during one of the hardest times of her life.
As Lilah Clevey pulled out of a gas station, she slammed into another car. The driver then became the unexpected source of comfort in Clevey's moment of panic.
Shalom Auslander grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish home. When he was 7, his grandmother offered him something small that made him rethink his entire relationship to religion.
In 2020, when Angela Zhao was just 10, she played in her first piano competition. As she waited to go onstage, a competitor did something small that gave her courage.
Not long after chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Mary Fran Lyons was walking through a mall, self-conscious about losing her hair. Then a stranger came up to her and gave her hope.
In 2006, Patricia Nieshoff's three-year-old son had a seizure. She was a single mother, with no one to accompany her to the hospital. But an hour into her hospital stay, a familiar face appeared.
In 1997, Apryle Oswald got in a car accident. The man who responded went on to help for three more days — driving her dog to the vet and Oswald's boyfriend back and forth to the hospital.
Ken Wilcox's life felt hopeless, like there was nowhere left to turn. Then a simple act from a stranger on the street changed his perspective and his life.
